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  • News from West Bengal | 01 Jul, 2025 | ১৬ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • Pant gets six-month extension as chief secy

    Kolkata: Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant, whose was scheduled to retire on Monday, received an extension of six months. Pant is a 1991 batch IAS officer.The department of personnel and training, in charge of appointments of IAS officers, on ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Landing gear snag delays Kol-Doha flight by 5 hrs

    Kolkata: A suspected snag in the landing gear, probably due to hydraulics or electrical issue, delayed the departure of a Qatar Airways flight from Kolkata airport on Monday. The aircraft in use was a Boeing B 787-8 twinjet. The ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Woman molested, threatened with rape at Kidderpore mela in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A 23-year-old woman was allegedly molested and threatened of rape by an Ekbalpore man at a Ratha Yatra mela on Friday evening near the Fancy Market entrance in Khidderpore, police said. The accused, who has an old rivalry ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Flyer held after bullets found in bag at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata: A 21-year-old flyer from Thane (Maharashtra), Mohammad Usman Sheikh, was arrested at Kolkata airport on Sunday for allegedly trying to board a flight to Mumbai with two live bullets and two empty cases without carrying any legal documents, ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    City airport conducts full-scale emergency drill to assess disaster preparedness

    123 Kolkata: A full-scale emergency drill simulating an aircraft crash was conducted at Kolkata airport on Monday afternoon to assess the preparedness and coordination of multiple agencies in managing aviation disasters.In the simulated scenario, an incoming Air India aircraft ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Campus gang rape: Arrested guard of law college may turn approver

    Kolkata: Three days after Kolkata Police arrested Pinaki Banerjee, the 55-year-old security guard of the law college where a first-year student was gang-raped, police indicated that they were considering moving the court to get his confidential statement recorded before ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Focus on anti-ageing hype after ‘Kaanta Laga’ girl’s death

    Kolkata: Shefali Jariwala's sudden demise at 42 has raised concerns over the potential dangers of taking anti-ageing medications on an empty stomach, especially during fasting. The incident has also drawn scrutiny to Bengal's film and modelling industry, where demand ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Physical document check must for vehicle ownership transfer in Bengal

    Kolkata: The state Transport Department issued fresh directives mandating vehicle owners to physically confirm ownership transfer before a designated official. The move is aimed at tightening regulations around the resale of used vehicles and curb unauthorised transactions.Dedicated counters at ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Water in tunnel, suicide stall metro, add to commute pain

    1234 Kolkata: Kolkata experienced severe commute challenges on Monday as heavy rainfall since morning led to waterlogging of key arterial roads in central and north Kolkata. This was compounded by two disruptions in the city's lifeline — the metro ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    BJP fact-finding team visits law college, runs into TMC questions on Malviya’s Kartik praise

    12 Kolkata: A BJP fact-finding team arrived in Kolkata on Monday and visited the law college where a first-year student was allegedly gang-raped last week. However, they ran into a volley of questions from Trinamool over BJP IT cell ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Bengal won’t remain silent over torture of migrant workers: TMC

    Kolkata: Bengali-speaking migrant workers were facing "persecution" in BJP-governed states and being branded Bangladeshis, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Samirul Islam said on Monday."These migrant workers are being detained without any police records. Authorities are not even contacting the ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    HC orders CBI probe into 2019 murder of 3 BJP workers in Sandeshkhali

    123 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into the 2019 murder of three BJP activists at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas. Justice Jay Sengupta directed the CBI joint director to set up a special investigation ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    TMC woman thrashes CPM veteran in Kharagpur

    Kharagpur: Trinamool issued a show-cause notice to woman party member Baby Kole after a CPM veteran alleged he was slapped, kicked, punched, hit with shoes, dragged out when he tried to seek refuge and smeared with paint on his ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Kartik Maharaj gets police summons for questioning

    12 Murshidabad/Kolkata: Padma Shri awardee Swami Pradiptananda, popularly known as Kartik Maharaj, was issued a legal notice asking him to face questioning in connection with a rape allegation. The notice, which was delivered by cops from Beldanga police station ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Kalyan defends April 25 protests against lawyers in HC

    12 Kolkata: Senior counsel Kalyan Banerjee, while arguing a case over ruckus by a mob outside the lawyers' chambers in Calcutta High Court on April 25, drew a distinction between two sets of protests on the same day. Banerjee ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    40 bombs recovered in Kaliganj

    Kaliganj: Around 40 bombs were recovered from Nadia's Kaliganj on Monday near the area where a 9-year-old girl was killed in an explosion on June 23. Sabina Yasmin, mother of the victim Tamanna Khatun, had earlier said that bombs ...

    1 July 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata college rape case: Calcutta HC allows lawyers to file PILs; petitioners seek retired judge to head SIT, term incident ‘premeditated'

    The Calcutta High Court has permitted the filing of two PIL petitions concerning the gang rape at South Kolkata Law College. Advocates Sauma Subhra Ray and Vijay Kumar Singhal, who previously filed petitions in the RG Kar case, are ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Moderate rain and humidity persist as monsoon continues

    According to AQI.in, this weather data represents the beginning of a significant seasonal shift in Kolkata's climate pattern.Current Weather OutlookKolkata is set to experience moderate rainfall throughout the week starting June 30, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.7°C and ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    'I just lay like a dead body': Accused even hit me with hockey stick, recorded assault, Kolkata college rape survivor tells SIT; statement matches evidence

    The Special Investigation Team has finished collecting crucial evidence in the law college gang rape case. This includes DNA samples, the hockey stick used in the assault, and clothing. Investigators are analyzing phone call details of the three accused. ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law college 'gang-rape' case: TMC rift widens; Mahua Moitra’s rebuke, Kalyan Banerjee’s retort shake party unity

    Internal conflict within Trinamool Congress intensified after MP Kalyan Banerjee attacked colleague Mahua Moitra for criticizing his and MLA Madan Mitra's remarks regarding a Kolkata gang-rape case. NEW DELHI: The fault lines within Trinamool Congress sharpened on Sunday as ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    College sealed, cloud over classes on campus

    123 Kolkata: With the ongoing trouble at the law college creating uncertainty over classes, the college has been sealed by cops. Students of different batches are in a dilemma about when they will get access to campus. Meanwhile, divisions ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Yunus unlikely to hold B’desh polls soon, says Hasina aide

    Kolkata: Sheikh Hasina aide Obaidul Quader said it was unlikely the interim govt in Bangladesh, led by Muhammed Yunus, would hold a general election anytime soon. The general secretary of Awami League in exile in India further said that ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Housing Para Kalindi

    123456 Kalidaha, or Kalindi, emerged on the marshy fringes of Patipukur in the late 1970s with a unique character as a planned neighbourhood featuring a standardised flat, grid-based layout and a homogeneous environment. Primarily intended to accommodate the middle-class ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC slaps show-cause on Madan as slugfest with oppn continues

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Sunday sent a show-cause notice to Kamarhati MLA Madan Mitra and censured Serampore MP Kalyan Banerjee for their remarks on the alleged gang-rape of a student at a law college, even as a political ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Leading with heart: Director vows to delete ‘punishment’ from IIT-Kgp’s dictionary

    12 Kolkata: "Delete the word punishment from the dictionary of IIT-Kharagpur," newly appointed director Suman Chakraborty said during his interaction with faculty members, staff, students, and alumni on Friday at Netaji Auditorium. Almost 50,000 people from across the world ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Aides filmed rape videos on rapist’s mobile, used footage to blackmail girl’

    123456 Kolkata: The rape videos found on accused Monojit Mishra's cellphone were filmed by aides Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee. Monojit had asked them to shoot from an angle from which the survivor's body and face were clearly visible, ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    NCW team visits south Kolkata law college

    12 Kolkata: A two-member National Commission for Women team on Sunday visited the south Kolkata law college where a student was allegedly gang-raped last week.The team, accompanied by a videographer, was initially denied entry and asked to produce a ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Train runs over 7 buffaloes in Burdwan

    12 Rupnarayanpur (Burdwan): Seven buffaloes were mowed down by the UP 12317 Akal Takht Superfast Express, which operates between Kolkata and Amritsar, between Rupnarayanpur and Chittaranjan stations around 11am on on Sunday. The train was detained till 11.30am.According to ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Minakshi aims slang at Kunal during Nadia speech

    Kolkata: CPM functionary Minakshi Mukherjee has come under criticism for using objectionable language during a public speech in Kaliganj, Nadia, while protesting the death of 11-year-old Tamanna Khatun who was killed in a bomb blast.A video of her remarks ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    City hosts final of multi-school spelling competition

    12 Kolkata: The grand finale of the 12th edition of the National Spell-A-Thon Olympiads was held at Gokhale Memorial School for Girls on Sunday. The competition saw participation from over 85 schools and 55,000 students across the country. The ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    3 of family die in Asansol home blaze

    Asansol: Three members of a family died while another was hospitalised after their house caught fire due to a suspected short circuit late Saturday night in Fatepur area of Asansol South in West Burdwan district. The deceased have been ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Pope selects city archbishop successor

    123 Kolkata: Pope Leo XIV has appointed Rt Rev Elias Frank, Bishop of Asansol, as the Coadjutor Bishop of the Archdiocese of Calcutta. He will succeed the current Archbishop of Calcutta, His Grace, Most Rev. Thomas D'Souza, when he ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Unions a constant presence despite no union election

    123 Kolkata: The campus where the law student was raped was not the only college where unions play a larger-than-life role despite the absence of a formal union. Across Kolkata, there are several colleges where no union exists on ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    21-year-old youth, woman die in motorbike crash on Maa flyover

    12 Kolkata: A 21-year-old youth and a woman riding a motorbike without helmets died on Maa flyover when the former crashed into the median divider of the flyover's link with AJC Bose flyover's arm on Sunday morning. The impact ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Season-change viruses on the rise even as Covid cases decline

    1234 Kolkata: While Covid is on the verge of making a complete exit, other season-change viruses have started filling the void. The Covid outbreak had kept them in check over the last three weeks. Cases of rhinovirus, metapneumovirus, and ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    New community zone opens below bridge in New Town for public activities

    123 Kolkata: Following the first community zone below the New Town flyover adjacent to the City Square ground that was developed few years back, New Town now has another space below a bridge for organising community activities. The space ...

    30 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal jute industry frets over import ban through land ports

    12 Kolkata: The ban imposed on the import of raw jute through land ports by the Union commerce ministry will cripple the sector in Bengal, leaders of the jute industry said on Saturday. Around 90% of jute-related manufacturing occurs ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Arrest warrant cannot be issued against person granted anticipatory bail: Calcutta HC quashes NBWs against defence personnel

    KOLKATA: A warrant of arrest cannot be issued against a person who was granted anticipatory bail, the Calcutta High Court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench held on June 13 while scrapping non-bailable warrants issued by a Kurseong judicial magistrate against two ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Police begin probe into rape plaint against Kartik Maharaj

    Kolkata: Police have started investigating the allegations made by a woman against Swami Pradeeptanandaji, secretary of Beldanga Bharat Sevashram Sangha, also known as Kartik Maharaj. The woman has accused Kartik Maharaj of raping her repeatedly while promising her a ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    'The Heart’, Rabindranath Tagore’s only known sculpture, fetches Rs 1 crore at auction; 35 handwritten letters also sold for Rs 5.9 crore

    Rabindranath Tagore's only known sculpture, ‘The Heart,’ believed to be dedicated to Kadambari Devi, fetched over ₹1 crore at a Kolkata auction. A set of 35 letters from Tagore to sociologist Dhurjati Prasad Mukerji sold for ₹5.9 crore. Created ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law student 'gang-rape' case: SIT formed, 7-hour CCTV timeline under lens; 90-second assault clips found on accused’s phones

    Kolkata Police have formed a Special Investigation Team to investigate the gang rape of a law student on her college campus. The team is analyzing CCTV footage and technical evidence. Medical reports confirm forceful penetration and injuries. KOLKATA: Kolkata ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Filmed private videos, body-shamed girls, faced molestation complaints: How 'Mango’s' campus abuse was ignored for years; a toxic mix of clout, impunity

    NEW DELHI: Even before the horrific ‘gang-rape’ allegations against Manojit Mishra stunned Kolkata, many students at the law college knew him not for his legal acumen but for the unchecked power he allegedly wielded on campus — and the ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather update: Rainy and humid conditions expected today

    Kolkata is forecasted to experience moderate rainfall throughout June 29, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 26.5°C and 30.7°C, accompanied by high humidity levels of 81% and an 85% chance of precipitation. The weather conditions are expected to create a ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    5 murder accused held in KP-Bihar Police op

    Kolkata: Cops from the Park Street Police Station played a key role in helping Bihar Police arrest five suspects, who had been hiding in Park Street and Narendrapur after allegedly murdering a property dealer and social worker in Bihar. Razi ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Digha looks at Ulta Rath rush, festive mood lingers

    A day after Rath Yatra, the festive fervour continues in Digha as the seaside town is now gearing up to host Ulta Rath or the return journey of the deities from the ‘Masir Bari' or the old Jagannath temple. ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Kol records eastern India’s first heart rhythm device implant op

    Eastern India's first-ever case of Bachmann's Bundle (BB) Pacing and Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing (LBBAP), a dual strategy that mimics the heart's natural electrical rhythm and supplements the pacemaker, was performed at a city private hospital. This process ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Immunity-impunity culture, rape weaponization breed crime

    Political figures across the spectrum, along with psychologists and women's rights activists, have expressed grave concern over the recent incident at the law college, condemning it as a disturbing example of rape being weaponised in an environment marked by ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC disowns netas’ ‘misogynistic remarks’, BJP takes to streets over ‘safety & security of women’

    Kolkata: The political slugfest following the alleged gang rape of a law student inside a south Kolkata college continued on Saturday as Trinamool took pains to distance itself from the "misogynistic remarks" of its own netas, emphasising the "quick ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    With Digha as Rathyatra focal point, Bengal showcases its brand of peaceful religiosity

    Rathyatras held across Bengal on Friday with the one at Digha Jagannath temple at its epicentre showcased the non-aggressive tradition of the Hindu religion — distinct from the Ram Navami processions in Howrah and elsewhere in the state marked ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Prime accused Monojit’s one-liner for every girl: ‘Tui amay biye korbi?’

    The key accused in the law college rape, Monojit Mishra, also known as Mango, always had a predilection for sexual depravity and violence with marked psychopathic tendencies, said a cross-section of his college juniors and batchmates. His conversation starter "Tui ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Pramit took part in ‘reclaim night’ stir

    Pramit Mukherjee, a co-accused in the rape of a law student at a south Kolkata college, had participated in the night-long protests against the RG Kar rape in Aug, 2024. A resident of Harinath Nyayaratna Lane in Chatterjee Haat, ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    3rd public display ever for rare Dali etchings at Victoria Memorial Hall

    123456 Kolkata: The Victoria Memorial Hall has put on display two colour etchings of Salvador Dali, the only originals of the Spanish Catalan surrealist master that any museum or gallery in India possesses. The twin Dali works were among ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Women’s panel chief meets survivor

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Commission of Women chairperson, Leena Gangopadhyay, on Saturday met the 24-year-old campus rape survivor. The first-year law student recounted her horror, and the commission extended their full support to her.Sources said the account by the ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    HC lawyer writes to CJ for suo motu action

    12345 Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court lawyer wrote to Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam on Saturday, urging him to take suo motu cognizance of the gang rape at the law college and order a court-monitored criminal investigation into the ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Met predicts heavier, more frequent showers today

    123 Kolkata: Even as the city received consistent rain on Saturday, more heavy showers could drench Kolkata on Sunday, said the Met office. A cyclonic circulation set to form on Sunday and turn into a low-pressure system could lead ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Two arrested for 1.1 cr cyber frauds

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Police has arrested two men in two cases of digital fraud, which together led to a loss of Rs 1.1 crore.In the first case, Nirmal Vijay was arrested from Nagerbazar for defrauding an elderly Salt Lake ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Biz school aspirant duped of 11 lakh

    Kolkata: Police registered an FIR against two individuals and their associates for allegedly defrauding an MBA aspirant of Rs 11 lakh by promising admission to reputable business schools. Cops said several others were also duped in a similar fashion.The ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Continuous rain pours water on KMC’s road-repair drive

    12 Kolkata: The showers over the past couple of days have thrown a spanner in KMC's plans for thorough repairs of battered roads that have been crying for restoration. The civic body has now changed its plan and decided ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Zaib was charmed by access to netas

    12345 Kolkata: The family of Zaib Ahmed, one of the co-accused in the law college rape case, said he was "charmed by Monojit Mishra's political clout in the college and access to senior Trinamool leaders". The Ahmed family resides ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    War of words as BJP youth neta held in Odisha over gold theft

    Kolkata/West Midnapore: A BJP youth wing neta was arrested near Odisha's Jaleswar while attempting to flee after stealing about 100 grams of gold from a jewellery shop, triggering a political war of words. According to sources, the arrested Somnath ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Vaishnaw seeks state’s help on pending Metro projects

    12 Kolkata: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday sought the state's cooperation regarding various pending railway works here while mentioning hurdles faced in implementing several Metro projects. He was at the newly upgraded Santragachi railway station to virtually flag ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC: Electoral roll revision BJP ploy to influence Bengal polls

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday alleged the Election Commission (EC) was pushing for a special intensive revision of electoral rolls because BJP, in its latest internal survey, had found they would get no more than 46-49 seats if assembly elections ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Conduct probe: Edu dept orders college

    Kolkata: The state higher education department ordered the college management to meet on Monday and submit a report on the crime. The dept will also review security measures across colleges under the higher education department, including the status of ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    CCTVs come up on campus, cops take guard outside

    123456 Kolkata: A day after the rape of a law student on the campus came to light, the south Kolkata college administration installed multiple CCTV cameras at strategic points on the premises on Saturday. Several police personnel were stationed ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    HC urges suo motu action

    123 Kolkata: A Calcutta High Court lawyer wrote to Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam on Saturday, urging him to take suo motu cognizance of the gang rape at the law college and order a court-monitored criminal investigation into the ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Tree-dwelling marsupials, native to Australasia, seized at Kol airport

    12345 Kolkata: A little over four months after two critically endangered primates — red-shanked douc — were seized at Kolkata airport, two tree-dwelling, nocturnal marsupials, native to the Australasia region, were seized at the airport on Saturday morning. Although ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Campus rape horror spooks other principals

    123 Kolkata: College principals who have previously only dealt with political violence on campuses have been alarmed by the rape horror at the college in south Kolkata and say it has altered the dymanics of threat on campuses. Principals ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    KMDA prepares draft SOP for Lake public swimming pool

    12 Kolkata: Following the death of a 16-year-old at the public swimming pool at Rabindra Sarobar on June 15, the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has prepared a draft or primary standard operating procedure (SOP) for people who will ...

    29 June 2025 Times of India
    Eastern Railway audits Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, reviews safety & heritage standards; praises efforts, suggests improvements

    DARJEELING: A safety audit was carried out on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) by a team of senior officials from Eastern Railway, led by SAG-level officers, to evaluate safety protocols, operational procedures, and to promote knowledge sharing between railways.DHR ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Spotlight back on campus safety: Law college gangrape case bring back memories of RG Kar horror; city reels in disbelief

    KOLKATA: A 24-year-old law student of a south Kolkata college was allegedly gang-raped on campus late on Wednesday by a former Trinamool Chhatra Parishad office-bearer now on an ad hoc teaching assignment and two junior students, rekindling the shock ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law student 'gang-rape': College security guard held; 4th arrest in case

    NEW DELHI: West Bengal Police on Saturday arrested a campus security guard, marking the fourth arrest in the alleged gang-rape case of a law student at a Kolkata college.The arrest comes two days after a 24-year-old law student from ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata law student 'gang-rape': Union minister Sukanta Majumdar slams state govt; calls it pathetic failure of administration

    NEW DELHI: Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday strongly criticised the West Bengal government over the recent alleged gangrape incident in Kolkata, drawing parallels with the RG Kar Medical College case. He called the repeated occurrence of such crimes ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Wet start to monsoon helps Kol top last June rain count

    12 Kolkata: Two more days are still left of June but the monsoon rainfall count in Kolkata has already exceeded the figure logged in last year's June. A wet beginning to the monsoon led to 187.8 mm rainfall in ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    In death, Kolkata youth set to gift life to 10-year-old in Chennai

    123456 Kolkata: The heart of a 23-year-old Howrah youth, Abhisek Dalui, is set to save the life of a 10-year-old boy battling heart failure in Chennai. The deceased organ donor's liver and two kidneys also ensured a new lease ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Let law take its course’: Father of Kolkata gang-rape accused Manojit Mishra says they haven’t spoken in 5 years; adds he cut ties over son’s political ways

    KOLKATA: Despite living barely four houses apart in Kalighat, priest Robin Mishra hasn’t spoken to his son Manojit Mishra in nearly five years — and doesn’t plan to. Now, as Manojit finds himself at the centre of a gang-rape ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Rape isn’t the first shock: Assaults, ragging and neta interference plagued Kolkata's law college for years; all you need to know

    KOLKATA: The rape of a student of a college in the heart of south Kolkata near a main thoroughfare is the culmination of violence, political interference and illegal activities at the institute in the past few years. The 50-year-old ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    College staffer, ex-student leader: Who is key accused Manojit Mishra? Arrested in Kolkata gangrape case

    Monojit Mishra KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata have arrested three men after a 24-year-old female law student alleged she was gang-raped inside her college campus on Wednesday evening.The woman, who studies at a law college in south Kolkata, said ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    EC sends show-cause notices to 8 minor parties in Bengal

    Kolkata: The Election Commission has issued show-cause notices to eight minor political parties in Bengal for failure to submit mandatory returns. This week, the poll body has initiated proceedings to remove 345 recognised unregistered political parties (RUPPs) from its ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Ransomware targets IT firm handling college admissions

    12 Kolkata: A ransomware attack on the server of a Sector V company handling online college admissions has compromised students' data and disrupted the entrance process for multiple institutes. The attack involved unauthorised access to servers, financial fraud and ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    College crime reignites political debate, protests

    1234 Kolkata: Yet another rape, 10 months after the rape-murder of a PGT doctor at RG Kar, reignited a war of words between Trinamool and opposition parties on Friday."This is not just a crime, it is a glaring proof ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Beset with violence & politics, other campuses try to turn over a new leaf

    Kolkata: Law colleges in the city have a history of campus violence and skirmishes. While some, including the college where the gang rape took place on Friday, continue to grapple with such issues, others have made efforts in recent ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    First Rath Yatra in Digha draws lakhs to seaside town

    123456 Digha: A sea of devotees swamped the road as the wheels of chariots rolled for the maiden Rath Yatra in Digha on Friday. In keeping with the tradition followed for the chariot festival in Puri, chief minister Mamata ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Peak of surge ends, COVID count near zero in Bengal’

    123 Kolkata: With the number of both COVID samples and positivity rate on the wane for about a week, doctors in the city said the peak of the spike is over and the count is now nearing zero. Even ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Law student gang-raped on college campus, 3 held

    12 Kolkata: A law student of a south Kolkata college was allegedly gang-raped at the campus security guards' room on Wednesday evening after being offered a key union post.Cops arrested three persons — college alumnus and ad-hoc staff Manojit ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Alumnus Manojit ousted from law college TMC unit and home in 2021

    12 Kolkata: Manojit Mishra, the key accused in the law college rape case, has been estranged from his father, Robin Mishra, for nearly five years. Despite living just four houses apart in Kalighat, Robin, a priest, severed ties with ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    ITC chairman’s salary flat in FY25 after 54% jump in ’23-’24

    123 Kolkata: After a 54% jump in salary in 2023-24, the remuneration of ITC chairman Sanjiv Puri remained almost flat in 2024-25, per the annual report of the FMCG, tobacco and agri major.Puri's total remuneration was Rs 25.6 crore ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Man gets life 14 yrs after trying to murder wife for insurance

    Kolkata: Fourteen years after Ritesh Kumar Shaw — a garments trader from Burrabazar — attempted to murder his wife in front of their four-year-old son, a Barrackpore court on Friday sentenced him to life imprisonment for orchestrating the crime ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    EC drive a routine effort to weed out illegal immigrants: Bengal BJP

    Kolkata: A day after CM Mamata Banerjee called Election Commission's directives on voter-list revision in Bihar an "NRC-like approach", Bengal BJP on Friday termed the exercise a "routine drive to weed out illegal immigrants".BJP's Bengal minder, Amit Malviya, said: ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Raiganj univ scientists discover new species of soil bacteria

    123 Malda: Researchers at Bengal's Raiganj University have discovered a new species of soil bacteria that exhibits strong antimicrobial properties and significantly enhances seed germination, indicating its immense potential in promoting plant health and productivity.The bacterium was isolated from ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    3 from Malda die in Kerala house collapse

    123 Malda: Three Malda youths, working as labourers in Kerala's Thrissur, were killed as the building they were residing in collapsed due to heavy rain on Friday morning. The incident occurred around 6am, when they were getting ready to ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Defence forces seek more MSME participation from eastern region

    123 Kolkata: Defence forces are keen to enrol more micro, small and medium enterprises from the eastern region, including Bengal, and have sought the support of leading chambers to work as a bridge with local MSMEs for defence manufacturing.At ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Odias, foreigners among visitors at maiden festival

    1234 Digha: Devotees from Odisha and other states joined residents of Bengal to celebrate the first Rath Yatra in Digha on Friday. Foreigners, mostly from Iskcon, and non-resident Indians also witnessed the celebrations with great excitement. For people from ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Woman lodges rape plaint against Kartik Maharaj

    123 Behrampore: A woman filed a complaint at Nabagram police station on Thursday alleging repeated rape by Padma Shri recipient Swami Pradiptanandaji, also known as Kartik Maharaj, secretary of Bharat Sevashram Sangha in Murshidabad's Beldanga. Police have launched an ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal seeks 6 addl months from SC to pay 25% of DA dues

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Friday filed a special leave petition (SLP) in Supreme Court praying for six more months to comply with its May 16 interim order directing the state to release 25% of dearness allowance (DA) arrears ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Iskcon chariots roll out on Sukhoi wheels in Kol

    1234 Kolkata: This Rath Yatra, Lord Jagannath rode in on fresh wheels in Kolkata. Last year's chariot ride on the worn-out Boeing Jumbo Jet tyres was particularly bumpy, compounded by the steering mechanism failure that left the chariot stranded ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Life sentence is rule, death exception, says Cal HC, spares convict the noose

    Kolkata: Life sentence was the rule and death an exception, the Calcutta High Court observed on Thursday as it commuted the death sentence awarded to a 33-year-old man convicted of murdering a woman in a hotel room in Bakkhali ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    Campus rape reignites political debate

    Kolkata: Yet another incident of rape, 10 months after the brutal rape and murder of a PGT doctor at RG Kar, reignited the war of words between Trinamool Congress and opposition parties on Friday."This incident is not just a ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    College has been in news for wrong reasons

    123 Kolkata: The rape of a student of a college in the heart of south Kolkata near a main thoroughfare is the culmination of violence, political interference and illegal activities at the institute in the past few years. The ...

    28 June 2025 Times of India
    A walk into the wild side of the city: Nature walk sparks green census drive in Kolkata

    KOLKATA: What started as a leisurely walk on a humid afternoon turned into a powerful lesson in ecological awareness. A unique Nature Walk took a group of enthusiastic youngsters on a one-and-a-half-kilometre trail—from Ram Mohan Library on APC Road ...

    27 June 2025 Times of India
    Key suspect in Bengal BJP worker murder held after 4 years

    Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested Arun Dey, a prime suspect in the 2021 murder of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, from North 24 Parganas. He is the eighth person to be arrested in the case. ...

    27 June 2025 Times of India
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